Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty thousand Britons and many U. S. visitors on hand for the Coronation bustled out to Windsor to gaze at the Royal Horse Guards in glistening breast plates and scarlet tunics, to cheer wildly as King George, Queen Elizabeth and most of the Royal Family wound out of the main gate of the Castle en route to a grassy slope nearby on the river Thames...
There in the bright sunshine loomed a simple fountain swathed in a Union Jack -a memorial to George V given by the inhabitants of England's Windsor and Canada's Windsor. Standing by it with bared head the King gave his address, an essay in modesty and propriety. Gist: "To me personally the memory of my father will always bring the inspiration of a high example." A cord was jerked, the Union Jack fluttered away, a cascade of water sprang from the fountain, a band blared the national anthem...
...Service of the League of Nations Secretariat, well-versed in the history and procedure of the British Crown, author of many a forceful magazine article, and husband of a great-niece of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. They knew too that Author Dennis had been at Oxford with the Duke of Windsor, presumably liked...
...Some of the most contemptible people alive, and that their native country had scornfully spewed forth, were closest around our King." Of the Duke of Windsor: "Without base flattery, nobody I think could have called him artistically or intellectually gifted, nor have attributed to him a subtle, remarkable or especially interesting mind. ... At the age of 40 he had not heard of the great writer who was Charlotte Bront...
Though the man who will be crowned on May 12 may not have the "charm" of Edward Windsor, he promises to be as duty-bound and soundly virtuous as George V, one of whose homely maxims was "Teach me never to cry for the moon nor over split milk." Growing up under the careful eye of her grandmother, the heiress-presumptive promises to become a woman well equipped to be a second Queen Elizabeth. Such material for the throne, coupled with the fact that Premier Baldwin's government seems to have sharpened its democratic mace against Bolshevik and Fascist competition...